Monday, October 23, 2006

More Bazaar

This is the other half of my stall at the fair. Perhaps you're wondering why one side is black and one is green? Well, I found out I had bought too little of the green fabric, and when I went back to get more, they didn't have any left!

But I love how it turned out anyway. And that way I had a "natural" division of the table: one for softies, felt and embroidered stuff. The other for bags, mobile cosies and baby stuff.

The green is very green, and I was a bit worried it might be too much, but I think it suited my things, and once there was stuff on it, it didn't seem quite as fluorescent!

There are a few things I think I'll do differently next time:

Put more stuff on the table; I had more of most things, but I was trying to make the table look "clean" so left about a third in the suitcase.

I want to get some business cards, that people can take even if they don't buy anything.

It would probably be a good idea to have small (paper) bags, cause some of my things are fairly small and it would be ridiculous to stick them in a carrier bag!

The hall we were in was really lovely, it was a great place for a craft fair; much better than a sports hall or something similarly drab! A

nd all the stalls had so many pretty things in them; what a shame I didn't make any money so I could have spent some there!

It was such a shame that so few people came, for whatever reasons, for all involved. In that respect it was a disappointment, but I still think it was a good experience. It was nice to meet other crafters (and bloggers; for example my stall neighbour whose arm you can just exactly see in the picture!).

I guess your experience depends on your expectations. I know how hard it can be to organize events, especially when you can't control every aspect of it and there are unknown factors.

And I think props go to Laura, the organiser, for putting this together in the first place. I can't wait for the next fair!

Followers

embroidery thread lovers

Hello! I am having more than the usual amount of spam on the blog at the moment, so I have had to make some changes to the settings for comments.

If you are unable to leave a comment, it's not you, it's the blog. Hopefully the situation goes back to normal soon so we can have a civilized non-spammy conversation. ;-) Thank you for your patience. xo, Carina

* * Please note: some internal links on the blog/site may show up as "Google Error - Not Found". I am aware of this happening, I just haven't had time to fix them; this happens where the link is missing the www part, if you add this, the link should work fine. If you notice any 'bad' links like this, please let me know. Thank you for understanding. - Carina * *

You are welcome to use the tutorials and patterns for your own personal crafting pleasure. And if you like them, feel free to share links to them. You can even borrow an image or two if you link back here. Sharing is nice, it's what makes the crafty blogosphere so great! But stealing other people's content and passing it off as your own is not nice at all. So don't be that guy. Or gal.

Translating my tutorials or removing my copyright notice from images and posting the content as your own is not allowed. Thank you.